Hi again. I'm too tired to say anything funny, so get on with the story, me.
Disclaimer: do I have to? Yes, it's true, I don't own Hey Arnold! So don't even let that thought
pass through your head. Got it? You better, 'cause I don't want to have to say it again.
Lila sat on the couch, planning her evil scheme. Suddenly, she got an idea. She smiled, as she
picked up the phone, and dialed a number. The phone rang a couple times, then she heard a voice
on the other end. "Hi Leila! How are you doing today?... yes, I'm back in town! Isn't that
wonderful?!... thank you ever so much!... can you help me with something?... thank you!... well,
there is this one girl that I despise, and I want to get her guy away from her. Actually, I kind of
like the guy, just a little, though. Not much at all... well, I was wondering if you could help me get
her to go on a trip without him... her name? Helga... you met her today? Did you guys visit?" she
asked through gritted teeth. Soon her face relaxed, and she stopped gritting her teeth. "Good. She
is very evil... oh, you could tell just from talking to her?... well, the one I want to take away from
her is-...yes, Arnold. Thank you ever so much, cousin!" she slammed down the phone, and stood
up. "Rhonda!"
Rhonda ran in, panting. "What is it, Lila?" she asked, bent over, with her hands on her knees.
Lila walked over to her, and patted her on the back. "I'm sure that my plan will work now. Helga
would never believe me if I told her that Arnold was cheating on her. But, if my cousin Leila told
her, she would believe it!" she clapped her hands in excitement. Rhonda looked at her with a
puzzled look on her face.
"How does Helga know Leila? And, why would she believe her? They aren't friends." Rhonda
placed her hands on her hips, and stuck them out to one side; the left side, to be exact.
Lila smiled, and giggle. "They met today, at Harold and Patty's house! And, if she is a friend of
Harold and Patty, she is a friend of Helga and Arnold. Or, in this case, just Helga." she smiled
wider, and wrapped her arms around Rhonda. "I'm finally gonna get back at Helga for stealing my
lead in that fourth grade play, the spinach, and everything else she ever did to or said about me!"
Rhonda pulled away from her auburn haired friend, and frowned. "That is the only reason why
you want to get Arnold to be yours? I thought you said it was because you loved him!" she
exclaimed.
Lila raised an eyebrow. "When did I say that? I don't remember saying ANYTHING about
LOVING him. I hate her, so I want to make her life miserable. I really love Arnie, but I'm sure he
still loves Helga." Rhonda shook her head. "What? He doesn't?"
"No, he came back, saw that you weren't here, and left. Just like that!" Rhonda snapped her
fingers, on her left hand. She laughed for a minute, then stopped. "I think he was looking for you,
at least." she began to think about.
"Wow. Well, anyway, back to business. I have the perfect way to get her to leave, just leave it to
Leila. She can convince anyone that she is on their side, just like me."
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Leila stood outside Arnold and Helga's apartment with Harold, Patty, and Keith. They walked up
to the door, and knocked on it. They heard some talking, then footsteps to the door. The door
swung open, and there stood Helga, who was smiling. "Harold! Patty! Keith! It's nice to see you!
Leila, what are you doing here?"
Leila shrugged. "Well, I was the one that told them that you came by, so they brought me with
them. Also because they need someone to watch Keith." she giggled, and Helga let them in. Leila
sat down on the couch, next to Arnold. "Hi, do you remember me?"
"Yeah, I do. You were the one that answered the door when Helga and I came to visit Harold and
Patty. Leila, wasn't it?" Arnold asked, shaking Leila's hand.
"Yes, yes it is." she smiled sweetly, then looked back at Helga and squinted her eyes with a smirk
on her face. Helga was visiting with Patty, and laughing. Leila didn't like the fact that Helga was
HAPPY. 'Well, I have to think of...' suddenly a thought hit her. her smirk became wider. 'Anyone
who hates my cousin, or my cousin hates, I hate too. And she asked me to do something, so I'll
do it. Heh.' "Heh, heh, heh."
Arnold looked at her strangely. "Are you ok?" he asked, she looked back to him, and smiled
sweetly.
"Oh yes, I'm oh so fine. Thank you for asking." she said, and looked back at Helga. 'Look at her,
she's so evil. I'm oh so glad I thought of some way to get rid of her so Lila can get Arnold. Al I
have to do is a little snooping around, then mess with her pictures, and then poof! She'll leave just
like a cloud of powder in the wind.'
Keith looked at Leila, waiting for the signal to run into the bedroom, so he could get candy from
"Lally". Leila smiled sweetly at him; that was the sign! He laughed, then ran into the back room,
to wait for "Lally". Leila stood up, and ran after him. "No wait, I can do it, Leila." Helga stood
up, and ran up behind her. Leila spun around, and shook her head.
"That's ok. I came her to watch him, and he snuck away rom me. I'm the one that is supposed to
watch him. You stay out here and visit." Leila smiled again, Helga shrugged then walked back to
her seat. Leila spun on her heel, and walked into the bedroom. "Keith, where are you?" she called
out loud enough for everyone to hear. "You better not be getting into anything!" she called out
again. She walked in farther, and over to where Keith was hiding. "Hey, find anything?"
"No, bu I di thee somepun over thewe." he pointed to the other side of the bed, which was
Helga's. She walked over and began to search through everything.
"Aha! Here is a picture of her and Arnold kissing. All I have to do is find a picture of Phoebe and
Gerald kissing and... aha!" she exclaimed, and pulled out a picture of Gerald and Phoebe, kissing.
"Good, and Phoebe is on the same side of Gerald as Helga was on Arnold! Now, where are the
scissors... aha!" she pulled a pair of pink scissors out from under the other stuff. She began to cut
the Arnold and Helga picture right down the middle. Luckily for her, Helga and Arnold were just
kissing lightly, and not with their arms around each other. Same with Phoebe and Gerald. she
began to cut the Phoebe and Gerald photo. You could almost hear music in the background, but it
was just the radio playing 'Rudolph the red nosed reindeer'. "Ah, all done. Keith, could you go
find some glue, but not ask anyone where it is?"
Keith raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Why not? I fought (a/n: that is really thought, just to let
you know, but he can't talk well) we were going to do this for a art pwajec? And where's my
cany?" he stuck his lower lip out, and put his hand on his hips.
Leila rolled her eyes, and turned more to him. "Keith, the candy is at my house. And, the art
project is a secret one. So, shh!" she stuck her finger to her lip, and turned back around. She then
held her hand out for the glue. "Glue, now, please?" Keith sighed, and looked out the door.
He turned his head back to Leila. "They aw vissing again. How can I get to it?" Leila turned her
head in annoyance.
"Pretend you're James Bond, just hurry!" she snapped, as quiet as possible. Keith smiled widely,
then put a serious face on.
"No. Caw me 007, not Keith. Ok? Either that or Bond... James Bond." he broke out in laughter.
Leila groaned, and turned back to the little two year old, scowling. He stopped laughing at seeing
her expression. "Sorry. I weave now." he turned back to the door, got as low as possible, and
began to crawl out. He watched them as he crawled, and when he was finally out of site he stood
up and ran to the kitchen. He ran in, and began to look through drawers. "Aha!" he reached into
the drawer, and pulled out a large thing of glue. "Good. Now, how to get back to Leila? I hope I
get pleny o cany." he crouched down onto his hands and knees, and began to do somersaults
towards the door where Leila was. He stopped when he was back in grown up sites, then crawled
instead of somersaulting. He was finally in the clear. He stood up, and began to giggle.
"What's so funny?" Leila asked, grabbing the glue out of his hands. She began to glue the Phoebe
half, and the Arnold half together so it looked like they were kissing.
"Just that I made it by the growd ups without them seeing me!" he laughed, and fell to the ground
in hysterical laughter. Leila stood up, and examined her "masterpiece".
Suddenly, they heard a yell from the living room. "Hey, you two ok in there? You've been in
there about a half hour!" it was Patty.
Keith stopped laughing, and walked out to his mommy, soon followed by Leila. "Sorry, but he
made a huge mess and I needed to pick it up." 'Luckily I actually DID pick the mess I made up,
or I'd be in deep doo doo.' Leila said, and thought as she walked towards the couch, sitting down
next to Helga. She leaned over, and whispered, "I need to talk to you in private. In the kitchen,
right now." she stood back up, and so did Helga. "Helga and I are going to et something to drink.
Anyone else want something?" everyone shook their heads, and Helga and Leila walked into the
kitchen.
"Ok, what's this all about?" Helga asked, placing her hands on her hips. Leila motioned to the
seats. "Yes, go ahead, sit down, but tell me what you are going to tell me." Helga flopped down
onto one of the chairs, and so did Leila.
"Ok. Keith had gone through the pictures, and as I was picking them up, I came across this one."
Leila said, handing Helga the picture that she had glued together. Helga took it, and examined it
for a minute, with her eyes full of tears.
"What? I don't think that I've ever seen th-this picture in there before." she squeaked out, then
lifted her head to Leila. She suddenly scowled, and placed her hands on her hips. "How do I know
you are telling me the truth?"
Leila was a good actress though. She would never tell the truth. She gasped, and placed a hand
over her heart. "I'm hurt Helga. Why would I do something as oh so awful as that?" she gave
Helga her most innocent smile as possible.
Helga's lower lip began to tremble. "B-but Arnold and Phoebe would n-never do something like
that!" she wanted to cry out, but instead kept her voice just above a whisper. Leila looked at
Helga sadly, and shrugged. "M-maybe it was just friendly." she managed to squeak.
"It doesn't look 'Just friendly' to me." Leila stated, shaking her head. Helga suddenly began to
whimper. Leila looked up, and saw Helga with her head resting on the table on her arms that were
crossed. Leila rested her hand on Helga's shoulder, and sighed. "Maybe you should leave for a
while. Like maybe go see your grandma in Des Moines?"
Helga looked up, tears streaking down her face, then she scowled. "Yes. you're right. I'm going
to go to my grandma's house for Christmas. Then, when I come back I'm going to move far away
from here. Far, away. Lila can have Arnold for all I care! Phoebe can have him, and Gerald can
have Lila! I don't care what happens to Arnold anymore." she stood up, and walked into her and
Arnold's bedroom. She packed up her stuff, and walked out the door of the room. She looked at
Arnold who was looking at her with one of his eyebrows raised. She turned her head so that she
couldn't see him even out of the corner of her eye, and walked out the front door.
Leila rubbed her hands together, as she stood up. "Heh, heh, heh... all goes according to my plan.
Helga walks out, I tell Arnold it's because she didn't love him anymore and she went to go live
with this one boy she had her eyes on while they were in high school. Heh, heh, heh..." sh
laughed, and tried her best to look disappointed. She straightened her posture, and walked into
the living room. All eyes landed on her. "Hi everybody. I bet you're all wondering why Helga just
up and walked out, huh? Well, she told me that she didn't love Arnold anymore, and she went to
go live with one of her old high school boy friends, that she dated before Arnold."
Disclaimer: do I have to? Yes, it's true, I don't own Hey Arnold! So don't even let that thought
pass through your head. Got it? You better, 'cause I don't want to have to say it again.
Lila sat on the couch, planning her evil scheme. Suddenly, she got an idea. She smiled, as she
picked up the phone, and dialed a number. The phone rang a couple times, then she heard a voice
on the other end. "Hi Leila! How are you doing today?... yes, I'm back in town! Isn't that
wonderful?!... thank you ever so much!... can you help me with something?... thank you!... well,
there is this one girl that I despise, and I want to get her guy away from her. Actually, I kind of
like the guy, just a little, though. Not much at all... well, I was wondering if you could help me get
her to go on a trip without him... her name? Helga... you met her today? Did you guys visit?" she
asked through gritted teeth. Soon her face relaxed, and she stopped gritting her teeth. "Good. She
is very evil... oh, you could tell just from talking to her?... well, the one I want to take away from
her is-...yes, Arnold. Thank you ever so much, cousin!" she slammed down the phone, and stood
up. "Rhonda!"
Rhonda ran in, panting. "What is it, Lila?" she asked, bent over, with her hands on her knees.
Lila walked over to her, and patted her on the back. "I'm sure that my plan will work now. Helga
would never believe me if I told her that Arnold was cheating on her. But, if my cousin Leila told
her, she would believe it!" she clapped her hands in excitement. Rhonda looked at her with a
puzzled look on her face.
"How does Helga know Leila? And, why would she believe her? They aren't friends." Rhonda
placed her hands on her hips, and stuck them out to one side; the left side, to be exact.
Lila smiled, and giggle. "They met today, at Harold and Patty's house! And, if she is a friend of
Harold and Patty, she is a friend of Helga and Arnold. Or, in this case, just Helga." she smiled
wider, and wrapped her arms around Rhonda. "I'm finally gonna get back at Helga for stealing my
lead in that fourth grade play, the spinach, and everything else she ever did to or said about me!"
Rhonda pulled away from her auburn haired friend, and frowned. "That is the only reason why
you want to get Arnold to be yours? I thought you said it was because you loved him!" she
exclaimed.
Lila raised an eyebrow. "When did I say that? I don't remember saying ANYTHING about
LOVING him. I hate her, so I want to make her life miserable. I really love Arnie, but I'm sure he
still loves Helga." Rhonda shook her head. "What? He doesn't?"
"No, he came back, saw that you weren't here, and left. Just like that!" Rhonda snapped her
fingers, on her left hand. She laughed for a minute, then stopped. "I think he was looking for you,
at least." she began to think about.
"Wow. Well, anyway, back to business. I have the perfect way to get her to leave, just leave it to
Leila. She can convince anyone that she is on their side, just like me."
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Leila stood outside Arnold and Helga's apartment with Harold, Patty, and Keith. They walked up
to the door, and knocked on it. They heard some talking, then footsteps to the door. The door
swung open, and there stood Helga, who was smiling. "Harold! Patty! Keith! It's nice to see you!
Leila, what are you doing here?"
Leila shrugged. "Well, I was the one that told them that you came by, so they brought me with
them. Also because they need someone to watch Keith." she giggled, and Helga let them in. Leila
sat down on the couch, next to Arnold. "Hi, do you remember me?"
"Yeah, I do. You were the one that answered the door when Helga and I came to visit Harold and
Patty. Leila, wasn't it?" Arnold asked, shaking Leila's hand.
"Yes, yes it is." she smiled sweetly, then looked back at Helga and squinted her eyes with a smirk
on her face. Helga was visiting with Patty, and laughing. Leila didn't like the fact that Helga was
HAPPY. 'Well, I have to think of...' suddenly a thought hit her. her smirk became wider. 'Anyone
who hates my cousin, or my cousin hates, I hate too. And she asked me to do something, so I'll
do it. Heh.' "Heh, heh, heh."
Arnold looked at her strangely. "Are you ok?" he asked, she looked back to him, and smiled
sweetly.
"Oh yes, I'm oh so fine. Thank you for asking." she said, and looked back at Helga. 'Look at her,
she's so evil. I'm oh so glad I thought of some way to get rid of her so Lila can get Arnold. Al I
have to do is a little snooping around, then mess with her pictures, and then poof! She'll leave just
like a cloud of powder in the wind.'
Keith looked at Leila, waiting for the signal to run into the bedroom, so he could get candy from
"Lally". Leila smiled sweetly at him; that was the sign! He laughed, then ran into the back room,
to wait for "Lally". Leila stood up, and ran after him. "No wait, I can do it, Leila." Helga stood
up, and ran up behind her. Leila spun around, and shook her head.
"That's ok. I came her to watch him, and he snuck away rom me. I'm the one that is supposed to
watch him. You stay out here and visit." Leila smiled again, Helga shrugged then walked back to
her seat. Leila spun on her heel, and walked into the bedroom. "Keith, where are you?" she called
out loud enough for everyone to hear. "You better not be getting into anything!" she called out
again. She walked in farther, and over to where Keith was hiding. "Hey, find anything?"
"No, bu I di thee somepun over thewe." he pointed to the other side of the bed, which was
Helga's. She walked over and began to search through everything.
"Aha! Here is a picture of her and Arnold kissing. All I have to do is find a picture of Phoebe and
Gerald kissing and... aha!" she exclaimed, and pulled out a picture of Gerald and Phoebe, kissing.
"Good, and Phoebe is on the same side of Gerald as Helga was on Arnold! Now, where are the
scissors... aha!" she pulled a pair of pink scissors out from under the other stuff. She began to cut
the Arnold and Helga picture right down the middle. Luckily for her, Helga and Arnold were just
kissing lightly, and not with their arms around each other. Same with Phoebe and Gerald. she
began to cut the Phoebe and Gerald photo. You could almost hear music in the background, but it
was just the radio playing 'Rudolph the red nosed reindeer'. "Ah, all done. Keith, could you go
find some glue, but not ask anyone where it is?"
Keith raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Why not? I fought (a/n: that is really thought, just to let
you know, but he can't talk well) we were going to do this for a art pwajec? And where's my
cany?" he stuck his lower lip out, and put his hand on his hips.
Leila rolled her eyes, and turned more to him. "Keith, the candy is at my house. And, the art
project is a secret one. So, shh!" she stuck her finger to her lip, and turned back around. She then
held her hand out for the glue. "Glue, now, please?" Keith sighed, and looked out the door.
He turned his head back to Leila. "They aw vissing again. How can I get to it?" Leila turned her
head in annoyance.
"Pretend you're James Bond, just hurry!" she snapped, as quiet as possible. Keith smiled widely,
then put a serious face on.
"No. Caw me 007, not Keith. Ok? Either that or Bond... James Bond." he broke out in laughter.
Leila groaned, and turned back to the little two year old, scowling. He stopped laughing at seeing
her expression. "Sorry. I weave now." he turned back to the door, got as low as possible, and
began to crawl out. He watched them as he crawled, and when he was finally out of site he stood
up and ran to the kitchen. He ran in, and began to look through drawers. "Aha!" he reached into
the drawer, and pulled out a large thing of glue. "Good. Now, how to get back to Leila? I hope I
get pleny o cany." he crouched down onto his hands and knees, and began to do somersaults
towards the door where Leila was. He stopped when he was back in grown up sites, then crawled
instead of somersaulting. He was finally in the clear. He stood up, and began to giggle.
"What's so funny?" Leila asked, grabbing the glue out of his hands. She began to glue the Phoebe
half, and the Arnold half together so it looked like they were kissing.
"Just that I made it by the growd ups without them seeing me!" he laughed, and fell to the ground
in hysterical laughter. Leila stood up, and examined her "masterpiece".
Suddenly, they heard a yell from the living room. "Hey, you two ok in there? You've been in
there about a half hour!" it was Patty.
Keith stopped laughing, and walked out to his mommy, soon followed by Leila. "Sorry, but he
made a huge mess and I needed to pick it up." 'Luckily I actually DID pick the mess I made up,
or I'd be in deep doo doo.' Leila said, and thought as she walked towards the couch, sitting down
next to Helga. She leaned over, and whispered, "I need to talk to you in private. In the kitchen,
right now." she stood back up, and so did Helga. "Helga and I are going to et something to drink.
Anyone else want something?" everyone shook their heads, and Helga and Leila walked into the
kitchen.
"Ok, what's this all about?" Helga asked, placing her hands on her hips. Leila motioned to the
seats. "Yes, go ahead, sit down, but tell me what you are going to tell me." Helga flopped down
onto one of the chairs, and so did Leila.
"Ok. Keith had gone through the pictures, and as I was picking them up, I came across this one."
Leila said, handing Helga the picture that she had glued together. Helga took it, and examined it
for a minute, with her eyes full of tears.
"What? I don't think that I've ever seen th-this picture in there before." she squeaked out, then
lifted her head to Leila. She suddenly scowled, and placed her hands on her hips. "How do I know
you are telling me the truth?"
Leila was a good actress though. She would never tell the truth. She gasped, and placed a hand
over her heart. "I'm hurt Helga. Why would I do something as oh so awful as that?" she gave
Helga her most innocent smile as possible.
Helga's lower lip began to tremble. "B-but Arnold and Phoebe would n-never do something like
that!" she wanted to cry out, but instead kept her voice just above a whisper. Leila looked at
Helga sadly, and shrugged. "M-maybe it was just friendly." she managed to squeak.
"It doesn't look 'Just friendly' to me." Leila stated, shaking her head. Helga suddenly began to
whimper. Leila looked up, and saw Helga with her head resting on the table on her arms that were
crossed. Leila rested her hand on Helga's shoulder, and sighed. "Maybe you should leave for a
while. Like maybe go see your grandma in Des Moines?"
Helga looked up, tears streaking down her face, then she scowled. "Yes. you're right. I'm going
to go to my grandma's house for Christmas. Then, when I come back I'm going to move far away
from here. Far, away. Lila can have Arnold for all I care! Phoebe can have him, and Gerald can
have Lila! I don't care what happens to Arnold anymore." she stood up, and walked into her and
Arnold's bedroom. She packed up her stuff, and walked out the door of the room. She looked at
Arnold who was looking at her with one of his eyebrows raised. She turned her head so that she
couldn't see him even out of the corner of her eye, and walked out the front door.
Leila rubbed her hands together, as she stood up. "Heh, heh, heh... all goes according to my plan.
Helga walks out, I tell Arnold it's because she didn't love him anymore and she went to go live
with this one boy she had her eyes on while they were in high school. Heh, heh, heh..." sh
laughed, and tried her best to look disappointed. She straightened her posture, and walked into
the living room. All eyes landed on her. "Hi everybody. I bet you're all wondering why Helga just
up and walked out, huh? Well, she told me that she didn't love Arnold anymore, and she went to
go live with one of her old high school boy friends, that she dated before Arnold."